ArcelorMittal Temirtau will invest around 3 billion tenge into the reconstruction of its sintering machine No. 6, scheduled to commence this month and finish in June. The project presupposes the increase of the machine efficiency by 30% and the improvement of the labor conditions. This project is just one of the steps to increase sintering…
Energomashspetsstal has produced machinery for the fourth block of the Indian Nuclear Power Plant “Kudankulam”. According to the company statement, it has produced 361 units of equipment. The total weight under the contract is 3.952 thousand tons. The company has produced metallurgical billets for steam-generators, pressurizers, main reactor coolant pipe, main circulation pump, etc. (Ukrainian…
In 2016 Krasnoyarsk Aluminum Works invested 1.135 billion rubles into ecological modernization, with 1 billion rubles to be invested in 2017. For the past several years the main goal of the company was to start producing highly technological wares from aluminum produced without increasing the metal output volumes. Thus the works has been modernizing its…
Chelyabinsk Iron and Steel Works, a part of Mechel, hit several historical output highs in March. In particular, the blast furnace shop produced over 370 thousand tons of pig iron, the highest volume since 2009. Steel smelting in the oxygen-converter shop reached 350 thousand tons, which was an absolute record since the shop’s putting into…
Metinvest has extended the office of the current CEO of the Central Mining and Processing Works Dmitry Shevchik for a year. Shevchik’s office has been extended from Aril 4, 2017 till April 2, 2018. Dmitry Shevchik was appointed CGOK CEO on September 1, 2015. Earlier he worked as the deputy chairman and deputy CEO on…
Metinvest has extended the office of the current CEO of the Central Mining and Processing Works Dmitry Shevchik for a year. Shevchik’s office has been extended from Aril 4, 2017 till April 2, 2018. Dmitry Shevchik was appointed CGOK CEO on September 1, 2015. Earlier he worked as the deputy chairman and deputy CEO on…
DTEK Burshtyn TPP has imposed limitations on coal deliveries from state mines. According to the minister of energy and coal industry Igor Nasalik, there is no shortage of G and D grade coal, mined in the western regions, but there could be problems with sales. “Gas-coal stocks increase each day”, he noted. On March 31,…
The Federal Antimonopoly Service has stopped investigation in Mechel, Severstal and Evraz alleged increase of rebars prices. Last summer constructors and machine-builders applied to FAS as to the drastic increase in metal prices, in particular, of rebars (by 34-103% from December 2015 till May 2016). The service started investigating the matter in July 2016, suspecting…